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that the tympanum, hitherto presumed to be a reset fragment from the chapel, is in place over the original south door of the chapel. The nave, now sub-divided by partitions and an inserted floor, measured 37 by 17ft. internally. Besides the arch-braced roof, an external batter and dressed quoins, the roof-line of a former chancel at the east end, an east-west alignment, and the circular embanked farmyard, all leave little doubt that this was "Egloiswensen" of the Valuation of Norwich (1254) which was last recorded in the Church Goods Commissioners' return of 1556. The medieval chapel of St James, Llanquian, is incorporated in a long range of farm buildings lining the south side of a small field on the west side of the Nerber castle (see B 16, below). Slight earth- works in the field presumably mark the site of a vanished settle- ment of which the chapel alone stands above ground. This chapel, known to have been dedicated to St James, is represented by the central unit of the farm buildings and is now a hay store, though until recently it has served as a dwelling with additional post- medieval accommodation added at each end. Here the E-W align- ment and the sawn-off stumps of two arch-braced roof-trusses are again indicative of a chapel, surely the recorded Chapel of St James which is said to have been replaced on its abandonment by the enlarged south aisle of Cowbridge. The third newly discovered chapel at West Aberthaw has survived for centuries as a secondary farm building. A brief account by one of the writers (H.J.T.) is noted above. Llancadle Chapel (No. 2) was a further example which survived as a dwelling. Sadly it requires listing here to record its recent demolition, though fortunately its survival as a cottage had caused it to be surveyed. The demolition of the surviving nave of Nash Chapel in 1969 was an even worse loss, since no warning was received and no survey made. Fortunately David Jones sketched the building in 1864 (Glamorgan Historian, V, p. 88), and there are records made by the Ordnance Survey. Other records or illustra- tions of the structure would be most welcome. St Michael's, Cwrt-y-carnau, the chapel of the Neath grange, was a substantial building in 1899 when described by Morgan (Antiq. Survey of East Gower, 9-11). It has deteriorated consider- ably since then, its 27 by 15 ft. nave being now outlined for the